I’ve always loved Europe. I was born in Germany to British parents, taught in a university in Scotland for five years, and have visited places from Leuven to Budapest. I’m in Australia now, but often pine for a European summertime.
When the European Union began it was a great step forward for European unity in the aftermath of the second world war and amid the on-going Cold War.
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